I disengaged largely because I felt you weren’t fast enough to acknowledge that the Palestinian people were being subjected not just to an atrocity, but, specifically, to genocide. Later, as the behavior of Israel became even more atrocious and blatant, you would acknowledge that the behavior of the government of Israel was genocidal, but by then I was already feeling the distance between us on the matter, and not interested in rejoining moderation in a comm where I could not guarantee what I regarded as a ‘baseline’ of decency/genocide acknowledgement.

However, due to Lemmy’s code, I couldn’t leave the mod position myself, and I thought I was being re-added every time I tried to leave since there’s a few hours’ delay, so I just stopped moderating for a while.

When you became less active, I returned to moderating, primarily by banning tankie fuckwits who came in and spread their vile shite. Eventually, you returned to activity and told me to give them a warning first, and I told you to just remove me from moderation, because I had no patience for those games.